After a troubled production and a relatively soft box-office for Solo, rumors began to emerge that the full-steam-ahead Star Wars franchise might take a quick breather. That sort of made sense, given the amount of rods it has in the fire, so to speak: the J.J. Abrahams-helmed flagship trilogy, the ongoing “Anthology”…
Fans of Marvel’s superheroes, sick and tired of never having any Marvel superhero movies to watch, are eagerly anticipating the next Avengers. Desperate for any clues as to what’s next after this year’s Infinity War ended on a big old cliffhanger, they’ve now been given something huge to look into: a photo of an empty…
In its first season, Netflix’s Big Mouth came up with a lot of creative ways to visualize the confusion and humiliation of coming of age. But, as is the extremely NSFW series’ wont, it goes further in season two, introducing David Thewlis as the source of unspoken adolescent disgrace, the Shame Wizard. That…
Stephen Colbert took Wednesday’s Late Show on the road. Well, on the street, anyway, as the host hopped up from his desk and interviewed guest Willie Nelson on Nelson’s famously cosy tour bus parked out on 53rd Street outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. There to promote his latest album, My Way (a collection of Sinatra…
Variety reports tonight that the producers of the resolutely unkillable James Bond film franchise have found their replacement for recently ousted director Danny Boyle, announcing that Cary Fukunaga will be helming the 25th film in the spy-action series. Fukunaga is probably still best known for directing the entirety…
Writing a sympathetic, emotionally vulnerable celebrity profile of Chevy Chase is probably a lot like making a hot dog without stuffing the thing full of pig anuses: You can do it, sure, but you’re going to have to leave all the good stuff out.
Recognizing, at long last, that their various differences shouldn’t get in the way of the shared practices that bind them so beautifully together—i.e., inflating concert prices to fuck the rest of us over when we just want to see Bruno Goddamn Mars—Ticketmaster has now been accused of entering into tacit partnerships…
We like to make up jokey themes for these monthly streaming write-ups, since it’s a fun way to make them seem more interesting than they are, but we can finally put that to rest because next month is October—the month with an actual theme we can base some streaming write-ups around. That theme, obviously, is…
Last October, we covered a trailer for a sci-fi movie called Replicas that starred Keanu Reeves as a scientist obsessed with cloning who loses his family in a car accident. It looked fine, it had Thomas Middleditch as Reeves’ assistant, and it was supposed to come out “soon.” Again, that was a year ago, with no sign…
In what’s either a pretty standard attempt to claw her way back into the musical limelight, or the boldest move yet in the industry’s most “Sk8ter Boi”-adjacent grift, the person claiming to be Avril Lavigne has just announced that she’s making a comeback. (Fun fact: You can describe almost anyone as “the person…
Batman has had a lot of thrilling adventures over the years, like the time he stopped the Joker from poisoning the Gotham reservoir, the time he got old and beat up Superman, and every other time he stopped the Joker from poisoning the Gotham reservoir. But the first issue of Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s new…
Apparently determined to overcome the legacy of Michael Jordan at every possible turn, LeBron James has doubled down on his efforts to make a Space Jam movie that might actually be, ya know, objectively good. Today, THR reports that James has partnered up with Ryan Coogler—the celebrated director of Fruitvale Station, …
David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot—which ignores the sequels and brings back original star Jamie Lee Curtis—won’t be silently stalking its way into theaters until next month, but it’s never too early to start preparing for the arrival of Michael Myers. Some Halloween fans might just want to make sure they have a…
Ever since HBO begrudgingly confirmed that Game Of Thrones will be ending after eight seasons, it’s been clear that the only people involved who really wanted the show to end at all (other than maybe some of the actors) were showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It’s still a big hit for HBO, so the network clearly…
Speaking with Access Hollywood at the Emmys, Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown revealed that she recently became friends with Drake, adding that he texts her with advice “about boys.” This may seem cute, since they’re both famous and it’s fun when celebrities are friends, except Drake is a 31-year-old man and…
Tracy Morgan, while hilarious, is not a comedian known for his great character work. The character of Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock was really just a slightly exaggerated version of himself, and one of his more memorable SNL characters, Astronaut Jones, was a tongue-in-cheek reference to his own lazy commitment to a…
Teddy Perkins, an Atlanta character too unnerving to ever forget, put on his finest velvet robe and splashed some water on his horrifyingly immobile face to enjoy a rare night out at last Monday’s Emmy awards. Those who watched, intending to enjoy a relaxing evening of giving awards to the wrong shows and improving…
On Tuesday’s Conan, Loving Pablo star Javier Bardem told host Conan O’Brien about the most chilling line he gets to say in the film about infamous Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. From the former Anton Chigurh (he of the deadpan coin flips of doom), that’s saying something, but, indeed, Bardem successfully wigged…
Hoping to somehow top the awe-inspiring spectacle of decades-old cartoon series and “Fuck Batman” that Warner Bros. used to herald the arrival of its recently debuted DC Universe, Disney is reportedly getting ready to throw some serious money at its own entry into the on-demand market. Per Variety, the entertainment…
Nicolas Cage is garnering a lot of attention at the moment, thanks largely to his latest film, the blood-soaked, hallucinatory Mandy. Directed by Panos Cosmatos, the film not only manages to be a lurid, bizarre bit of uber-violent spectacle, but also the home for a crazy Nicolas Cage performance that’s deranged in…
